Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [verb] [adv prt] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A convoy of vintage Rolls-Royce cars has set out on a nostalgic journey . |
| 2 | At the back of the platform was a fence , and although it had apparently been painted white in the early 1900's , in later years the paint had peeled off and bushes had grown up on the cutting side to provide a new backdrop to the isolated platform beside the overgrown railway . |
| 3 | All seven Fulmars had landed back on the carrier by 2015 but two were again scrambled almost immediately on the approach of three more S.79s . |
| 4 | The activists had given up on a people 's peace — and they were not yet ready to explore the possibilities of a people 's war . |
| 5 | As traffic congestion has built up in town centres , so new development centres have sprung up on the urban fringe and in the open countryside , where car-based access is , at least initially , easier . |
| 6 | The defence lawyers had walked out on the grounds that the trial lacked procedural guarantees , and that the court , as a military one , had no jurisdiction . |
| 7 | One or two of the demonstrating ladies had sat down on the pavement ( they should never have shown Gandhi on TV ) and were singing ‘ the one with the waggerly tail … ’ with gusto . |
| 8 | The constituent legislation of other tribunals contains provisions allowing access to the High Court , whereas some tribunals have to fall back on the appeals contained in s.13 of the Tribunals and Inquiries Act 1971 . |
| 9 | A major supermarket has just unveiled four new Teenage Mutant Hero Turtle pizzas and Dr Mumby says the way the foodmakers have jumped in on the Turtle band-wagon is wrong . |
| 10 | On that basis , the CAP has not protected the small farmer because large , efficient farms have cashed in on the guaranteed payment scheme and produced huge quantities of food , using increasingly intensive methods . |
| 11 | AIR wars have broken out on the vital transatlantic routes , with British Airways , Virgin Atlantic and two big American carriers all slashing their spring fares . |
| 12 | Wainfleet added that although the police had closed in on the area they had missed Sniffy . |
| 13 | THOUSANDS of pensioners have missed out on the prosperity brought about by Margaret Thatcher 's administration and remain caught in ‘ massive poverty traps ’ , the conference was told yesterday . |
| 14 | A TRIO of Cleveland pensioners have set off on the trip of a lifetime to the bulbfields of Holland . |
| 15 | ‘ As a farmer whose children have grown up on a busy farm , I am very aware of the risks and the work pressures that all too easily lead to children being exposed to danger . |
| 16 | But we had to choose , early on , which side we belonged to , and children have to come down on the side that brings the food home and gets it on the table . |
| 17 | The others have gone out on the town . |
| 18 | In the past , too many tunnel schemes have ended up on the surface because of the cost implications . |
| 19 | In reality it becomes almost impossible to find this amount in the budget , and projects have to limp along on an underfunded basis or with the overseas donor financing an increasing proportion of the total costs . |
| 20 | But with falling profits many employers have cut back on the perk . |
| 21 | It was not possible to ascertain directly how many halogen moieties had ended up on the football . |
| 22 | He had a high-rolling joint on the SS Nocturne , a ship anchored outside the limits , and some nasty rumours had floated back on the tides along with a well-dressed corpse or two . |
| 23 | THE Tories have fallen back on a quack cure for the economic ills they are forcing upon our country — even higher prescription charges . |
| 24 | BOSSES have cashed in on the Euro money crisis . |